Episodes

Welcome to episode #160. Today we discuss the Winter Olympics stamps of the United States. Yes, the sports event that has us all watching for who can slide across the ice the fastest is going on right now and it has a very interesting philatelic history (minute marker 3)

After that…. Today is Valentine ’s Day. With love in the air we also discuss the history of the Love stamps. (Minute marker 18)

Welcome to episode #159. This week we discuss Turkeys preventing the mail from being delivered in Ohio. Yes these butterballs to be are holding our mail hostage. (3 minute marker).

On the serious side we discuss the US Specialty Precision Multi-Gauge – I am spelling it here because we called it the Precision United States Specialist gauge in the podcast. The search still works but….. here it is correctly named. (Minute marker 11).

Welcome to Episode #157. Today we are looking at the Linn’s Stamp Poll. They annual popularity poll of the stamps put out last year. Go to Linns.com and look at the poll. Vote for your favorites. (3 minute marker)

Welcome to episode #156. Today we discuss the Scott's Catalog, printed by Amos Publications and is a necessary item for any collector. There are a few things in the catalog which are hard to decipher though and we discuss them. Today we give advice on how to better read and more fully use the catalog (6 minute marker).

Welcome to episode #155. I know this may sound odd but in this episode I discuss all the episodes you won’t be hearing. Everyone else is gone so I can do what I want. Next episode will be back to normal but until then – enjoy, Or don’t – I am not going to tell you what to do.

Welcome to episode #154. With the Last Jedi having just come out, we had to discuss Star Wars stamps. Don’t worry, there are no spoilers so if you haven’t seen the movie – you will not have it spoiled for you. We also discuss the new Game of Thrones stamp set coming out because there are Dragons! (13 minute marker).

After that, we have Jim Forte who is one of the leading dealers in postal history in the country. He continues the discussion we had last week on Cancel Collecting and has some fantastic insights (29 minute marker).

Before we “officially” started the podcast, Jim also shared his experience with selling stamps on Amazon, Hipstamps and eBay as well as DelCamp and his own web site PostalHistory.com. It was so good I didn’t cut it down… as you will see when Dawn asks “when is the podcast starting?”.

Welcome to episode #153. Cancellations. We are not being canceled, our mail is…… That is our letters are having postmarks put on them and that is what we will be discussing, the glamorous and exciting world of cancel collecting. (4 minute marker)